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Hi Jeremy

I got an issue with a new computer. It has windows 8 installed on it and I cannot install the rhino plugin. It asks me to install the .net framework. But I have it already installed on my machine (as it comes with windows .
How can I install the plugin then?

thx,
Christoph

You need to go to Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off, and enable .NET 3.5 (that includes 2.0, which is what the installer is looking for).

thanks a lot, that worked!
Is there any way I could have known that? Or how do other people with windows 8 install the plugin?

As far as figuring it out yourself, the main way would be the same way that I used: by typing windows 8 .net framework 2.0 into google, which returns lots of results. This is something of which I've only recently begun hearing (you are the 4th occurrence, I believe), so I guess I'll have to warn about it in the readme and the installation docs.

but shouldn't everybody with windows 8 have the same problem?
are so many people still on win7 I thought I was one of the later adaptors ...

I have no way of knowing whether it should always be the case, but don't assume so -- some people upgrade existing win7 installs, or have upgraded from 8 to 8.1, or have installed 8.1 fresh, and so on.

Probably a question of the OEM configuration. Since there are a lot of desktop programs around that still require .NET 2.0 I can't really see a reason to have it deactivated by default. Acer obviously choose to have it activated for my machine.